That’s the question faced by many LGBTQ+ people living in Russia, where an anti-gay propaganda law makes it illegal to ‘promote’ homosexuality to minors, activists have been hunted down and murdered, and the majority of society (86% according to this study) believe gay people shouldn’t be accepted.
Meanwhile, in the self-governed state of Chechnya, modern-day concentration camps have been created where LGBTQ+ people have been subject to abduction, interrogation, torture and even extrajudicial.